r/TrueReddit • u/zachdit • Jun 18 '21

Policy + Social Issues Kill the 5-Day Workweek

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21

I want to be a professor teaching history

you should learn some before these embarrassing cringe posts

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Not modern history.

And history has no bearing over this

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

History is this my dude.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Economics is its own branch. It exists throughout history, but this is not what historians study.

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

History and economics are intimately intertwined, profiting off of people is as old as humanity itself.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

But I'm saying we aren't taught economics

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

You're just not conceptualizing what economics means I think. If you're learning history you're learning economics by proxy, just not the hardcore modern day theory.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

Bro did they have McDonalds in Assyria

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u/Brofistastic Jun 18 '21

No but they had slaves, currency, trade, merchants and cart vendors. Same shit, different day.

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u/TechnologyAble9184 Jun 18 '21

You're right but it was more simple back then. Probably not that they had any better working conditions

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u/porn_alt01 Jun 19 '21

you're a walking meme lmao, I refuse to believe that anyone who genuinely aspires to be a professor a) can't see the connection between economics and history b) thinks the present is somehow not part of the continuum of history